2,000-year-old gold jewelry from mysterious culture discovered in Kazakhstan

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The two gold earrings found in one of the burial mounds are crescent-shaped and inlaid with gemstones. The decorations on their lower edges are supposed to represent clusters of grapes. Archaeologists have unearthed gold jewelry, arrowheads, and a large, bronze mirror from roughly 2,000-year-old burial mounds in the Turkistan region of southern Kazakhstan. The artifacts are thought to have been made at the time of the Kangju state, a little-known entity that ruled the region between the fifth century B.C. and the fourth century A.D. According to a translated statement by officials at Turkistan's regional government, the finds show the...